La función relacional del exordio en el discurso parlamentario de la II República

Abstract

In this study, the aim is to demonstrate the role of the exordium as a "relational" element in the construction of the argumentative framework in the parliamentary discourse of the Second Spanish Republic. After a brief introduction on the concept of exordium developed in classical rhetoric (Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintilian) and, more recently, by argumentation theory (Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca 1989 and Lo Cascio 2009), it is observed how the incipits of the selected corpus (the debates on the approval of the articles on the relationship between the State and the Church and on women's suffrage in the 1931 Constitution) present the linguistic-pragmatic resources (exposition of the thesis and/or arguments, construction of the locutor's image, modal and enunciative elements, or persuasive strategies of other kinds) that constitute the core ensuring the realization of truly effective argumentation (Lo Cascio 2009).